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Lady Penelope York

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Lady Penelope York @ladypenelope.bsky.social · Nov 8

So I occasionally post about:
Second Life
Zack Snyder
Film in general but silent, classic era, Hammer, 60s-70s British film, musicals
Nancy Drew (2019) and Tom Swift
British cult TV mostly The Young Ones
Musical theatre
Champions Online
Gothic rock, punk, post-punk etc.

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Lady Penelope York @ladypenelope.bsky.social · 15h

Is the inter-war period the exact moment American Anglophilia began? WWI being a lesson in "we've got more in common"?

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Forever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social · 18h

Louise on the cover of VU magazine, June 1929. Original photo by Studio Lorelle, Paris.

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Lady Penelope York @ladypenelope.bsky.social · 18h

Out of curiosity, what's with the Anglophilia that runs through the early Universal Monsters? I guess Dracula and Invisible Man being set in England is down to the source material, but then there's Werewolf of London as the first Wolfman film...

Lady Penelope York @ladypenelope.bsky.social · 18h

Countess Zaleska's motivations never really make sense, and she seems to die just because it was time to end the film.
Feels like using the Swan Lake theme again would really have worked for this one.

Lady Penelope York @ladypenelope.bsky.social · 18h

(She hypnotises and sucks on a woman... Pretty much all offscreen.) And seeing this pick up directly from Browning's Dracula (the bodies are literally still warm) is kind of cool.
This might actually be my favourite of the Monsters so far, but that's entirely down to Holden's presence.

Lady Penelope York @ladypenelope.bsky.social · 18h

I have very mixed feelings on Dracula's Daughter. The opening comedy bit is painful, and it continues Dracula 1931's belief that Whitby is some kind of district of London. (Carfax Abbey has even relocated there!) Yet, damn, Gloria Holden is just so beautiful. And there's queer subtext!

Lady Penelope York @ladypenelope.bsky.social · 18h

My attempt to watch all of the Universal Monsters films has reached Dracula's Daughter and Son of Frankenstein. Yes, it's Universal Monsters Kids time.

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Soylent D Cracker🏳️‍🌈 @cinemacultist.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, they released this

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Lady Penelope York @ladypenelope.bsky.social · 1d

Seriously what is this? Can't see Kiss of the Spider Woman but I can see this?

Lady Penelope York @ladypenelope.bsky.social · 1d

Last night I woke up from a dream so unsettling I think I dissociated temporarily. Never seen a film scarier than what my subconscious can casually throw at me.

Lady Penelope York @ladypenelope.bsky.social · 1d

So I'm up late because tomorrow is the day I booked off for Kiss of the Spider Woman, which isn't releasing here, but oh well, it's a day off in October.

Lady Penelope York @ladypenelope.bsky.social · 1d

"And now it's owned by people that will kowtow to Trump. And there's a huge disconnect between the spirit of Star Trek and the spirit of Marvel Comics in which they were conceived, and the people that now own them. It's really bizarre." - Stewart Lee www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTfc...

STEWART LEE on The Riyadh Comedy Festival, Oasis Reunion, Marvel, Star Wars and Being Beaten Up

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Lady Penelope York @ladypenelope.bsky.social · 1d

"What's really bizarre is all those franchises now are owned by companies that have just bent over backwards for Trump... It's really weird to think that Disney owns Marvel Comics, and Marvel Comics was invented by liberal autodidact Jewish antifascists and... acid-fried hippie dropouts...

Lady Penelope York @ladypenelope.bsky.social · 1d

#ChampionsOnline Planned my evening around BITE launching. I love BITE. Forgot the new dev team simply cannot launch an event unbugged. Guess I'll just do Trick or Treat...

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Forever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social · 1d

Louise and Richard Arlen for Beggars of Life (1928). Photo by Eugene Robert Richee.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 2d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.